04/26/2011

Introducing the Windward Javelin, now 20% more pointy!

Here at Windward Studios, we're always hard at work improving our reporting solutions. After looking through suggestions and brainstorming we settled on a list of major additions that would improve the flexibility and usability of our reporting engine.

Lo and behold, Windward Javelin!

Javelin is a standalone installation running on a server. Any interaction (like running a report) is done by making calls to that server. Easier to use; easier to maintain.

The Javelin API is RESTful. All major programming languages can make calsl to a RESTful API. This makes reporting even easier to integrate into your system. What is REST?

Javelin has an additional scheduling component. You can schedule report to be generated and automatically emailed out.

Bundled with a sample HTML portal to work with Javelin. You don’t need a programmer to get started using Javelin.

Right now, we do have the following restriction. Javelin needs to be installed on an IIS enabled computer (meaning a Windows OS machine). However, there are no such restrictions for any clients interacting with Javelin (your application can run in any operating system).